Favorites August 23rd 2022

November 2021, San Francisco

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT

Biggest takeaway is Trump team has confirmed the former president had high-level, sensitive and restricted material at his home for many months before allowing archives access to it (archives didn't know what was there)

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT

Confusing to assess how this letter helps Trump, which whoever gave it to Solomon seemed to think it would. Among other things, it confirms our reporting that SAP material - highly restricted information - was part of what was returned from MAL https://t.co/ZaFDNPD5Bg

Trump released the letter from the National Archive where they originally asked for the classified documents back, and no one is really sure why he released it. They were about as explicit and specific as possible, "hair on fire" regarding the request.

Brian Fung @b_fung

Among its allegations, the disclosure obtained by CNN claims half of Twitter employees, including all engineers, enjoy excessive access to the live Twitter product and user data, and coding/testing happens right in the product rather than in a sandbox:

cnn.comEx-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policiesTwitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.

Plus, they purposefully hired an Indian government employee to monitor protests.

Matt Patches @misterpatches

I hope the success of House of the Dragon inspires other studios to greenlight prequels set 172 years before the events of the original series. What *was* happening in the Cheers universe in 1810?

Some people even watched it on broadcast tv!

Michael Paulauski @mike10010100

Aaahahahahahaa holy shit the Dems actually stuck an amendment to the Clean Air Act into Biden's IRA that explicitly defines CO2 as an air pollutant, giving the EPA back its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and directly addressing the Supreme Court's ruling.o

Gernot Wagner @GernotWagner

The sweet smell of legislative success https://t.co/nKJ0HD1Wk9 https://t.co/mGltxlK1o2

This is precisely what SCOTUS said the legislature should do.

David Zipper @DavidZipper

Pickup trucks and SUVs are killers. In the USA: ▪️ Pickup trucks are involved in 5.6% of pedestrian/cyclist crashes -- and 12.6% of deaths ▪️ SUVs are involved in 14.7% of pedestrian/cyclist crashes -- and 25.4% of deaths doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.…

High Grills are bad, we should do what we can to make them less common.

Threads

• Thread of things blamed on Bicycles, including appendicitis.

• Thread covering China's recent power shortages.